The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s7.8

c19.s7.8

8. The question is also posed by Professor Biardeau: "Le problème soulevé maintenant est donc de savoir si le sacrifice n'est plus effectivement qu'une affaire de langage" (ibid., 81). She concludes, however, that even the confrontation with world renunciation could not dislodge sacrifice from its central position. See my review of her study, *Indo-Iranian Journal* 21 (1979): 47–49.